En el nombre de los árboles

by Karin Boye, Albert Herranz (Translator)

Diktsamling

Genres: Poetry, Swedish Literature

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1935

About the author

Karin Boye was a Swedish poet and novelist.

She is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be "Yes, of course it hurts" (Swedish: "Ja visst gör det ont") and "In motion" (Swedish: "I rörelse"). She also wrote a few novels including "Kallocain". Inspired by the rise of National Socialism in Germany, it was a portrayal of a dystopian society in the vein of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World (though written almost a decade before Nineteen Eighty-Four). In the novel, an idealistic scientist named Leo Kall invents Kallocain, a kind of truth serum.

Boye died in an apparent suicide when swallowing sleeping-pills after leaving home on April 23, 1941.

Reviews

[leontine humlan · Rating 4 out of 5]

några favoriter: ”Trädet under jorden”, ”Havsbön”, ”Din värme”, ”Evighet” (För trädens skull). även del 5 och 10 av ”Tillägnan”, samt ”Stenarna” (Härdarna).

[Missives Divines · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grosse révélation. Poèmes sublimes!!!

[Johanna A. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ganska lättsmält men ändå gripande poesi. Några favoriter från denna samling: Idyll, unga viljor viner, visst gör det ont när kroppar brister, evighet.

[Jana G. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bara några enskilda dikter som jag gillade. Tyckte bäst om "Ja visst gör det ont".

[Truls Ljungström · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dikterna över uppbrotten med ... släkt? familj? som skildras är intensiva. Diktsamlingen har mer pathos än elegans, men är innerlig och vacker.

[Lisen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I do love Karin Boye as a whole, but I don't remember what I thought *specifically* about this one bc again... it's been 9 months